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Thursday, March 19th, 2009 by Hal Abelson

Meridia tablet, A few hours ago, the MIT faculty adopted a resolution that makes our scholarly articles freely and openly available to the entire world, though the MIT DSpace Institutional Repository. The policy applies to all of MIT:

Passed by Unanimous Vote of the Faculty, March 18, 2009

The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible, buy meridia c.o.d.. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. Seattle meridia, In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, order meridia online legally, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, South Dakota SD, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written notification by the author, who informs MIT of the reason.

To assist the Institute in distributing the scholarly articles, as of the date of publication, each Faculty member will make available an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article at no charge to a designated representative of the Provost's Office in appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office.

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The policy is to take effect immediately; it will be reviewed after five years by the Faculty Policy Committee, with a report presented to the Faculty.

The Faculty calls upon the Faculty Committee on the Library System to develop and monitor a plan for a service or mechanism that would render compliance with the policy as convenient for the faculty as possible.


I chaired the committee that drafted the resolution and led faculty discussions on it throughout the fall. So I'm particularly gratified that the vote was unanimously in favor. In the words of MIT Faculty Chair Bish Sanyal, New Mexico NM N.Mex., the vote is “a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice; that what we value is the free flow of ideas."

Our resolution was closely modeled on similar ones passed last February by Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and by the Harvard Law School, also passed by unanimous vote. Meridia pedido en línea, Stanford's School of Education did the same, as did Harvard's Kennedy School of Government just last Monday.

Harry blogged last month Meridia tablet, about the execrable "Fair Copyright in Research Act" introduced by Rep. Conyers of Michigan, which would repeal the National Institute of Health mandate on open-access publishing and forbid government agencies from imposing similar mandates, meridia online pharmacy. This act is harmful to the progress of science and should be scuttled. Now that there are unanimous votes supporting open access by faculty at world-leading institutions, Acheter meridia discount, Rep. Conyers should recognize what everyone else does, and deflate his ill-conceived trial balloon.

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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

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The digital explosion makes such information quarantine an unnatural condition at best, and perhaps an impossible one, buy cheap prozac online. And indeed, the New York Times reports today that jurors are routinely using search engines to find out more about the events they are adjudicating. (As Jurors Turn to Web, Billiga prozac apotek, Mistrials are Popping Up) In a recent trial, a judge at first hoped that only a single juror had been using Google to check things out -- in that case, he could throw the juror off the jury and continue the trial.

But then the judge found that eight other jurors had done the same thing — conducting Google searches on the lawyers and the defendant, looking up news articles about the case, Nebraska NE Nebr., checking definitions on Wikipedia and searching for evidence that had been specifically excluded by the judge. One juror, asked by the judge about the research, Prozac lowest prices, said, “Well, I was curious,” according to Mr. Raben.

Buy cheap prozac online, Mistrial. But the impulse is so easy to imagine, prozac online stores. I myself was once on a jury trial in a reckless driving case, in which the defendant was charged with careening down residential streets at high speeds. A crucial piece of evidence was a hubcap coming off as he screeched around a sharp corner. Prozac without a prescription, The jury deliberations lasted overnight. Were the trial taking place today, I could use Google Street View after I got home to see what that corner looks like, buy cheap prozac online.

Did anyone see this coming. Not the attorneys in the case, apparently.

“We were stunned, Oregon OR Ore.,” said a defense lawyer, Peter Raben, who was told by the jury that he had been on the verge of winning the case. Purchase prozac online, “It’s the first time modern technology struck us in that fashion, and it hit us right over the head.”


Hit over the head by the force of the digital explosion. One minute you have a stable, reliable social institution that is the descendant of centuries of experience, as good and as fair a system as democratic societies know how to create, availability of prozac in pakistan. A minute later, you have to wonder if it can survive at all, since it is premised on conditions that no longer exist.

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Saturday, March 14th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

The Obama administration is invoking "national security" Buy generic ultram, to prevent the American people from knowing what is in the intellectual property protection treaty it is negotiating with foreign governments. (That page has a wonderful morph of Bush to Obama. αγοράσετε ultram, Other coverage of this story is aggregated by Jamie Love here.) That's right -- the administration has turned down flat a Freedom of Information Act request for the details of the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA), which has nothing to do with making phony money, but instead deals with peer-to-peer file-sharing and other forms of digital copying, online ultram. With a straight face, Illinois IL Ill., the government is claiming that our national security would be endangered if American citizens were to know what deal is being cut with other industrialized countries about monitoring music and movie downloads. Yes -- we actually do know a bit about what is in the draft treaty, because of a leaked document, ultram in india, which appears on Wikileaks. You can download it there -- it's a summary sent by a US ambassador to interested industry folks, but not to the public interest groups who generally are vigilant about the downside of high IP protection barriers, buy generic ultram. Kansas KS Kans., According to the Wikileaks digest,

The document reveals a proposal for a multi-lateral trade agreement of strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods hiding behind the issue of false trademarks. If adopted, Colorado CO Colo., a treaty of this form would impose a strong, Ordering ultram, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon internet service providers, including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information, ultram generic. The proposal also bans "anti-circumvention" measures which may affect online anonymity systems and would likely outlaw multi-region CD/DVD players.


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Saturday, March 14th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

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Well, Apple wants you to buy Apple earphones, cheap generic viagra. Viagra canadian, The way the capitalist world is supposed to work, Apple is supposed to achieve that by making better earphones, or by cutting its prices, acquistare a buon mercato viagra. Everyone else has the same incentives, Ordering viagra online cheap, and the consumer wins from the competition.

Oh, not in the America of the DMCA, Washington WA Wash.. Apple has engineered the new iPod Shuffle so that the replacement headphones won't work unless they have built into them an "authentication chip" the headphone maker can get only from Apple. Wyoming WY Wyo., Now the headphone maker is prohibited by law from trying to figure out what the "authentication chip" does so it can make headphones you can just plug into the Shuffle without, in essence, asking Apple's permission and paying Apple money, Osta viagra online. So Apple winds up controlling the headphone market.

A classic case of copyright law being put to a use that has nothing at all to do with the protection of books or music or images -- just to kill competition, to the advantage of one company and to the plain disadvantage of the public.

Thanks to Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for raising a stink.

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Thursday, March 12th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

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But it's also easy to dream of a perfect world that is unlikely to be reached or to look like the dream once we get there. And that is the bottom line on a good Wall Street Journal column by noted physicians Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, buy cialis cheap, Obama's $80 Billion Exaggeration. The $80 billion number, they report, comes from a four-year-old RAND Corporation study with a lot of wishful thinking and not a lot of data, cheap cialis online. Buy cheap cialis online, The doctors raise a privacy concern, too -- not that the data will be mishandled and leaked, but that the entire enterprise is in part designed as a monitoring program by the federal government, ordering cialis without prescription.

Some have speculated that the patient data collected by the Obama administration in national electronic health records will be mined for research purposes to assess the cost effectiveness of different treatments. Cialis prescription, This analysis will then be used to dictate which drugs and devices doctors can provide to their patients in federally funded programs like Medicare. Private insurers often follow the lead of the government in such payments. If this is part of the administration's agenda, Wisconsin WI Wis., then it needs to be frankly stated as such. Arkansas AR Ark., And Americans should decide whether they want to participate in such a national experiment only after learning about the nature of the analysis of their records and who will apply the results to their health care.


The suggestion that the government will want to chew on the data to try to figure out what works is unsurprising. But it surely hasn't been highlighted, and it raises some fundamental questions, alternative brand to cialis. What is the data in my medical record going to be used for, how long will the data be kept, and can I be sure it won't be repurposed.

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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

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Different folks may have different views about the social thrill of learning that their friends are eating donuts in Walla Walla or are enjoying the view of the Grand Canyon (except they aren't watching at all since they are thumb-typing instead). But sometimes you really, pharmacy tramadol, really shouldn't twitter, no matter how excited you are to share with a few special friends the wonderful news about what's happening to you.

Like for example if you are a US Congressman on a top-secret diplomatic tour of Baghdad, cheap tramadol tablets. Ordering tramadol no rx, No, bad idea to twitter then. You see, when you twitter, comprar en línea tramadol, what you say isn't secret. In fact, Tramadol-pharmacy rx one, do I really need to explain that the reason for twittering is to tell lots of things to lots of people, which then pretty much inevitably become not secrets. You can read the rest of the story, including the tweets of Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), where to buy tramadol,¬†here. Cheap tramadol tablets, He even announced the time he would be entering the Green Zone. A big help to the soldiers charged with keeping this genius safe on his trip. Delaware DE Del., I wouldn't want to suggest that the Republicans are having more trouble than the Dems, but it's less than a 1 in 4 chance that both Congressmen involved in spilling the beans via Twitter today are members of the GOP. Jeff Frederick of Virginia announced in an elated tweet that State Senator Ralph Northam was switching from Democrat to Republican. Except that, ordering tramadol no rx, oops, the tweet fell into Democratic hands, Billiga tramadol apotek, and Northam's colleagues waterboarded him until he changed his mind about changing parties. (OK, that last part about the waterboarding was just a metaphor, but the rest is true.)

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Thanks to MIT student Xiao Xiao and to Hal Abelson for these pointers.

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